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Liberal State Department analyst Walter Kendall Myers apparently had a deep anger against the US for its policies on Cuba.
But his friends are baffled by charges against him of conspiracy and being a foreign agent for the communist island...since 1978.
Read more in this Washington Post profile:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/06/AR2009060602245.html
I don't know how any intelligent observer could claim sympathy for Castro-controlled Cuba after visiting it...even if only for a week...unless they were treated like celebrities/politicians and kept inside a sheltered state security bubble.
A few minutes of private conversation with a regular Cuban...will usually reveal all sort of resentments and hostilities...against the Castro's control and policies... and not those of the US!
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